Hi, Nick,
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Nick Radonic [c] wrote:
Further to my suggestion that Engineering format be supported in the OO
spread sheet, I found this formatting code on the web - consider
incorporating it in some form
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That might be good to mention in the actual bug report:
Open Office
Further to my suggestion that Engineering format be supported in the
OO spread sheet, I found this formatting code on the web - consider
incorporating it in some form
def number_to_engineering(value, precision=3)
expof10 = ((Math.log10(value)/3.0).floor)*3
value *=
Open Office:
I love the software and have been using it since verion 1. Here are
two features I would really like to have:
1)
I really miss the 'engineering format' for scientific notation. This
forces the exponent to be a multiple of 3. Then the mantissa portion
ranges from 1 - 999.
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Nick Radonic [c] wrote:
... I really miss the 'engineering format' for scientific notation. This
forces the exponent to be a multiple of 3. ... I also used it on my
TI-57/58/59 calculators way back when in the 70's. It is so much more
readable than straight scientific
